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I'll go a step further and say there is no self made anything. Just by being born in America you have a huge advantage over someone born in say, Ethiopia. When I hear someone call themselves "self-made", I immediately assume that person does not value the support and love given by those close to them. It also means they very likely don't value how much society in general contributes to the life they live. In other words, if someone tells me they are "self-made" - I'd say there's a very strong chance they are either out of touch, ungrateful, or even narcissistic.

While I don't have a strong preference for electron, I do have some thoughts and answers to your questions I'd like to share.

> Electron no longer allows Node.js to be called from renderer processes, all communication with Node.js is done via IPC.

I don't think calling Node.js from the renderer was a huge selling point for Electron - as it is not recommended due to security concerns. However, I still believe you can achieve this if you want - by using contextIsolation: false and nodeIntegration: true. But, even if this is not possible, it looks to me that using IPC with contextBridge still allows for pretty flexible Node.js use.

> Why does it have to be tied to V8/Node.js?

Some people prefer to have a Node.js backend (backend here being Electron's main Node.js process). There are multiple advantages to this:

- If using typescript: shared types between the frontend and backend

- Shared utilities, functions and constants

- If utilities and functions are shared, that means we can write some tests once, and the tests will work for both the backend and frontend

- Less context switching

These are just a few, I'm sure there are more.

> In this case, why do we still need Electron?

Besides the reasons I listed above, the alternative you listed (Tauri) seems to be relatively newer, have a smaller community, and with less online resources available (tutorials, stack overflow questions, etc).

Small typo:

"To allow GPTBot to access your only parts of your site"

> Capturing signals from you eye nerve doesn’t tell anything about your subjective experience of seeing an apple.

I strongly disagree. It actually does tell you quite a lot. For example, if there aren't any signals, you're very likely not seeing anything.

> The only way to understand that you’re seeing an apple from this signal is to train a model on your responses

It seems to me this contradicts your first argument. If such models exist (they very likely do, I'm not familiar with this area of research), they can tell us a lot about a person's experience.

> see “pholosophical zombie” concept.

Searched for “pholosophical zombie” but couldn't find anything, sorry. Just kidding :)

I'd argue there's some selection bias going on. You're more likely to participate in a technical discussion if you're familiar with the topic. Or else you risk getting downvoted.

> Squashing PRs truly is absolutely useless

That is quite an absolute statement. Some people just have a personal preference for having git trees arranged in a certain way. If squashing can help with that, then it serves a purpose.

I'm having issues understanding this:

> let’s assume that the utility gain for the gifted son from living in the suburbs would be larger than the utility gain for the disabled son from living in the city. A pure utilitarian, then, must choose the suburbs.

Everything's okay so far. But then he says this:

> Nagel’s view is this: if you say that you would live in the city for the sake of your disabled son, despite it being the case that moving to the city creates more utility in total, you are not a utilitarian

Didn't the author just say moving to the suburbs creates more utility in total?? And now he's saying moving to the city is what creates more utility?

> If you only save it on the server, not on the client side, it's not PII. But then it's almost useless for analytics.

You can get a lot of useful information by only saving stuff on the server. e.g.: number of visits per day, user behavior on certain pages, etc etc...

Why do you care about free will? If you are a healthy human being, you are capable of making decisions based on the knowledge you have and your ability to think. Why does free will matter in this case? Or am I missing something?

It's still about 60% faster than the 1080 ti, which is huge in my opinion.